"We were a little bit timid tonight with our overall performance": Mickey Arthur

[Snowflake]

i don't get it.

the brand of cricket we played was not wrong. Batting at 5 rr was not bad, throwing our wickets was the issue.

Batting at 5 rpo is 100% wrong if you have two of the worlds best batsmen playing on flat road.

Just like your statement, this Pakistan teams sets extremely low standard for themselves and this gives bu**s*** excuses when they lose.

 

[Snowflake]

Those who think they 155/2 in 29 overs was ok, I couldn’t disagree more. 155/2 in 29 was behind the curve, it should have been closer to 180.

Saying 155/2 was ok fails to recognise that Pakistan is a team a decade behind in strategy, and a few years behind in skills management to the top 4 teams.

Yes they hit fours but clearly Pakistan wasn’t forcing the pace. Did you see how conservatively (for that passage of play) even your top bats played Kuldip or Jadeja?

Pakistan was playing a game and game plan that’s from a decade ago. Simple as that. 9 out of 10 time you won’t win against the top 4 teams (when they also send their best players to play, which may not happen in a bilateral).

This! The collapse, which was inexcusable no doubt, keeps getting highlighted but what we don't discuss enough is that even if these two hadn't gotten out, they were only on par to score 290-300 which most certainly would not have been enough vs India on this track.

Babar and Rizwan were pathetic in their approach. But we've said that a million times and will continue to say it.

 

[TheSultan]

Lot of people describing the Pakistan batting as timid.

Surely they all can't be wrong.

Outdated approach that could backfire.

No, they are all “agenda haters”

 

[Savak]

Mickey has definately gone soft in this tenure. Am surprised that he has allowed a fat Imam to remain part of the squad

 

[Syed1]

Mickey has definately gone soft in this tenure. Am surprised that he has allowed a fat Imam to remain part of the squad

No fitness required if you are best friends with the captain.

 

[aukhan]

The captain is the reason for this horrible campaign.

 

[Mesozoic]

Minnow mentality...


This is the same South Africa that failed to chase 240 against wait for it....Netherlands. They're probably the worst chasing side this world cup and this fact was laid bare yesterday as well. Except Miller, all their other top batters threw their wickets away to nothing deliveries.

Any half decent bowling attack would have defended that total in Chennai against them and even against Afghanistan.